Hans Vestberg, CEO of Ericsson, believes there will be over 50 Billion “connected devices” by 2020. The world’s leading telecom provider says that “in the future everything that would benefit from being connected will be connected”. This effectively creates the upcoming Internet of things, and many of these things will be robots. More precisely, around 100 million robots [...]
Servos are invariably the most expensive component in robot design. Of course, as you increase the number of degrees of freedom, which typically requires one or more servos for each additional degree, the total robot cost quickly skyrockets. At the same time, you want to optimize the robot's performance and...Wouldn't it be cool to be able to control your LEGO Mindstorms robot creations using the iPhone, from across the room, or across the planet, and to see what the robot sees? Kleekbots is scheduled to release their implementation as a commercially available product early in 2011. The product plans...Taylor Veltrop explains and demonstrates his Master/Slave implementation of the Kinect with the Willow Garage ROS system to control a Kondo KHR-1HV humanoid robot, including a few surprises. The contest description says: “We invite you to combine an RGB-D sensor (e.g. Kinect, PSDK5.0) with ROS to produce something new, interesting,...I realized last night while talking with some fellow robot builders that the Kondo Land Robot Competition videos so far make the obstacle course look much easier than it actually was. The hazards the robots have to conquer are far from trivial, and the fact that several of them almost...101223 Kondo Land Robot Contest 318 Originally uploaded by Robots-Dreams. The 1st Kondo Land Robot Contest, featuring a life sized replica of a steeplechase cum video game, was a rousing success, so much so that the company just announced the schedule for the 2nd competition, along with some interesting new...THKR-4 may look more 'robotic' than some of the other entries in the ROBO-ONE Humanoid Helper Robot Project, but that doesn't detract a whit from it's ability to perform useful domestic tasks like greeting guests, opening the refrigerator, serving drinks, popping party poppers to celebrate, and giving a shoulder massage:...The ROBO-ONE initiative usually draws a lot of attention because of it's robot battles in the ring. After all, who wouldn't be excited by a couple of robotic humanoids trying to knock each other out, sometimes completely out of the ring. But, the movement is much more than just entertainment....The Spring ROBO-ONE competition will be here before you know it. It's hard to believe that the upcoming event will be the 19th ROBO-ONE. It's scheduled for March 19th and 20th, in Kawasaki, and this time the format has changed slightly. On the first day, in lieu of the more...
At RobotShop, we would like to wish you all a very happy holiday season. May this holiday season be filled with joy, love and lots of robots! We know you will take care of the joy and love, let us take care of the robots with this robotic holiday round-up. PR2 could soon become Robot Santa. Robot geeks know Robot Santa from Futurama, the dreaded Santa [...]
Aldebaran announced recently an update to the very popular Nao. The little robot has now a more robust body, longer curved arms that allow for further reach, an improved motion engine that allows for smoother movements, a cooler head with better heat management, improved speech recognition, and face detection among other upgrades. Aldebaran CEO Bruno Maisonnier demonstrates his creation , shows-off the improvements, and is victim of Nao‘s [...]
Heartland Robotics, a company founded by Rodney Brooks (founder and former Chief Technological Officer at iRobot, and MIT professor) is developing what should constitute a true robolution. Their main objective is to change the way we currently view robots by making them ubiquitous. As of now, robots can be seen to be large, extremely expensive, and slow. This is akin [...]
Gostai, the creators of Urbi, the popular Open Source control software for robots, just released their new robot: Jazz. Transformers fans, don’t get too exited, because this is not a transforming robot from outer-space, it is a telepresence robot that can be accessed trough a web interface in order to “teleport” the user to a different location. It rolls on two [...]
The subject of the coed baby shower is still somewhat controversial. It’s true that showers of any kind are traditionally the province of women. This is partly due to their origins and partly due to the fact that babies are considered a more traditionally female subject matter. Those concerns are giving way, however, to more [...]
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